Sarah Palin kept talking and talking, and the more she talks, the less compelling she can be. People say, "She's a very good politician, very deft at what she does," and whatever. And I hear that sometimes and go, "I don't know much about this stuff, but I would say no." Because the really good politician expands the audience, not contracts it. She may be getting a very vocal crowd, but it's a very specific group.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

Everybody's trying to hold onto some shred of dignity in the process of it all, and, at the same time, never talking about how they don't have the power. No one has the power. So, you know, producers - we always think, "Well, producers are very powerful," but producers don't really have the power.